Enriching the body of knowledge represents the main purpose of conducting academic research in any discipline. Such a purpose can be best achieved by sharing research through international platforms/outlets. This study aims to investigate the challenges of academic research and publishing papers in international periodicals within the discipline of tourism and hospitality management. A quantitative approach was adopted in this study using A questionnaire was used for gathering primary data. The sample of the study included 68 academic researchers from different tourism and hospitality faculties/institutes in Egypt. The results of the study showed that scholars at the field of tourism and hospitality management struggled against many obstacles during different stages of conducting research, such as lack of appropriate references; limited access to databases; absence of established research designs; biased and uncooperative participants. The results also revealed that publishing research in local periodicals was dominant in this discipline in Egypt due to many challenges, including long time and high costs associated with international publishing. The study has concluded some practices for handling challenges to academic research.